Ebook: German Philosophy and Politics

This book gives the unprofessional reader a succinct notion of the development
of classic German philosophy from Kant to Hegel. Technical details are omitted,
while the ideas that are significant for the history of culture are emphasized.
It shows how German thought took shape in the struggle for German nationality
against the Napoleonic menace, and how profoundly that crisis affected the
philosophy of morals, of the state, and of history which has since that time penetrated
into the common consciousness of Germany. Incidentally it makes clear how superficial
is the current accounting for the contemporary attitude of intellectual Germany by reference
to Nietzsche, etc., since that attitude is shown to have its basis in the older idealistic philosophy.